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Toronto, ON, Canada
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October 24, 2023

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Vas Donbosco

GTA

Ontario

Canada

416-***-****

ad0lkp@r.postjobfree.com

Canadian Citizen

British Citizen

Summary

Experienced in working for Venterra.com, Royal Bank of Canada, Move.com, BC Ministry of Children and Family Development

Over 18 years of professional expertise in the software testing arena

Expertise in Mobile Apps Testing

Off shore QA team Coordination

QA Team Management

ISEB Intermediate Certified

One year in Automation Testing using Selenium ( 2009 -2010)

Two years in Java programming.

My expertise in technical testing has been honed by rich exposure to a variety of projects and the capability to assimilate business logic. My strengths include excellent communication and interpersonal skills with strong work ethics and a will to succeed.

First Class Bachelors Degree in Mechanical & Production Engineering

ISEB Intermediate in Testing (British Computer Society)

CISI Foundation (Introduction to Investment)

HP QuickTest 9.0 Product Specialist ( 2007)

Professional Scrum master ( 2022)

QA Specific Experience

Mobile Apps testing - More than 3 years

QA Test planning & Logging - More than 15 years

QA Team Lead - More than 7 years

Agile methodology - More than 5 years

Detailed Specification Reviews - More than 15 years

SME & QA Co ordination - More than 10 years

Managing QA for Change Requests - More than 15 years

QA Management of Live Issues with SLA’s - More than 15 years

RAG Status & Daily Progress Reports - More than 15 years

Defect Handling Process - More than 15 years

Go Live \ Post Implementation Testing ( PIT) - More than 15 years

Grey box Testing (RDBMS) - More than 15 years

Agile methodology - More than 5 years

Mobile Testing ( Browser stack & other emulators) - More than 2 years

Automation Testing - 1 year

Employment Summary

Date

Company Name

Title

2019 November – 2023 March

Venterra.com

QA Analyst

2018 July - 2019 April

Client : Royal Bank of Canada

Team Lead Quality Engineering

2017 September - 2017 November

Client : Move.com

Quality Assurance Analyst

2016 November - 2017 May

Avocette, Vancouver

Client : Workbc.ca

Client: BC Ministry of Children and Family Development

Quality Assurance Analyst

2016 August – September

Kaza Consulting, Canada

Client : PHSA ( provincial health services authority)

Quality Assurance Analyst

2013 February -2016 March

Client :Transport for London

Senior Test Analyst

Role : Team Lead

2011 November - 2012 November

Client : Transport for London

Senior Test Analyst

Role : Team Lead

2011 September- 2011 November

Client : Net-a-porter.com

Senior Test Analyst

Role : Team Lead

2010 June – 2011 June

Client :Transport for London

Senior Test Analyst

Role : Team Lead

2009 March – 2010 April

EnergyHelpline.com

Role : Team Lead

2008 Jan – Feb 2009

Fish4 ltd

QA Manager

2006 Aug – Dec 2007

Yellow Pages Ltd

QA Team Lead

2005 Jun – July 2006

Ardentia Ltd

QA Team Lead

2003 Dec – May 2005

British Telecom Ltd

QA Consultant

2002 Jan – Nov 2003

UBICS Ltd

Technical Tester

2001 Jun – Dec 2001

Travelstore Ltd

Java Programmer

2000 Jun – May 2001

Viryanet Ltd

Java Programmer

Work Experience

Venterra.com

Title: Quality Analyst ( Permanent role)

Duration: 2019 November – March 2023

Project : Encasa, Smarthub, Pocket Encasa

Venterra is a $4.7 billion Real Estate Company with 600 Employees and 40,000 residents. Venterra specializes in the identification, development, finance, acquisition, and management of multi-family residential communities in the southern United States.

Encasa is the Software engine that provides Venterra with the ability to manage the apartment communities. Smarthub is the Mobile app available in the Apple store for residents to have a seamless experience of renting and living in their apartments.

Testing of the Smarthub Apps in Apple store and Android store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/venterra-realty-smarthub/id1549302197

TeamCity Continuous deployment experience with Jira / Confluence

QA of PocketEncasa mobile apps for employees

QA of Twilio integration with PocketEncasa

QA of SmartRent integration with Encasa and PocketEncasa

Expertise in Real Estate software management process

Close interaction during QA with Developers to meet monthly release cycles

Client : Royal Bank of Canada ( www.rbc.com)

Title: Team Lead Quality Engineering ( Consultant)

Duration: 2018 July - 2019 April

Project : Defined contribution pension plan ( DCPP)

RBC’s Defined contribution pension plan helps companies to provide a streamlined experience for their Employees in managing the contribution for pension plans they are enrolled in. The book keepers for the DCPP pension plan are www.Buck.com

Data from Book keepers were transferred to RBC systems through API requests / response & flat files.

Coordination with QA Offshore team

Coordinating the End to End testing between RBC systems & Buck.com

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

Responsible for QA environment deployments using IBM UCD code deploy

Co ordinating the Data preparation for testing the End to End system

Creating RBC Bank profile for customers using Sales Platform

Attaching RBC Bank account & Bank cards using Sales Platform

Defect review meeting with developers to review the list of defects and its impact

Daily progress report during the Test Execution phase with RAG status

API testing of data sent by Buck using Postman and SoapUI

Tracing the data in the Mainframe IBM DB2 using File Aid

Client : www.Move.com, www.Realtor.com

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Duration: 2017 September - 2017 November

Move.com provides Realtors with the ultimate CRM experience using the 8i Product suite. This helps the realtors to convert leads, assign action plans to prospective leads, Create Websites for getting lead information, Unique webpages with security for customers, integration with gmail and outlook, Sending Market Snapshots, receive leads from various sources and integrate them into 8i.

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

End to End Testing of the Real Estate 8i Product Suite

Regression Testing for SQL server upgrade project

Defect review meeting with developers to review the list of defects and its impact

Daily progress report during the Test Execution phase with RAG status

Production issues investigation and resolution process

API testing for Market Snapshot using latitude and longitude

Client : BC Ministry of Children and Family Development ( Adoption Management System)

Client : www.workbc.ca

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Duration: 2016 November - 2017 May

BC Ministry of Children and Family Development’s Adoptions Management system (AMS) integrates Siebel ICM maintained by Deloitte with Avocette’s AMS suite. This handles the Adoptions and Fostering process for children in BC and provides a comprehensive set of tools to manage and track a wide range of adoption agency activities, including registration, matching and placement.

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

Reviewed the requirements document for the upgrade of Adoptions Management System

Developed Test Plan for upgrade Adoptions Management System (AMS) highlighting the risks and mitigation

Developed Test Cases and Data required during the Test execution phase of the project

End to End testing of data from Siebel ICM to AMS

Defect review meeting with developers to review the list of defects and its impact

Daily progress report during the Test Execution phase with RAG status

Microsoft test manager was used for Test cases and execution

www.WorkBC.ca is the provincial government's access point to the world of work in British Columbia. It was created with one key goal – to help all British Columbians to successfully navigate B.C.’s labour market.

WorkBC helps people find jobs, explore career options and improve their skills. We also help employers fill jobs, find the right talent and grow their businesses.

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

Involved in User Acceptance Testing ( UAT) for Workbc.ca data upgrade project

Responsible for analysing the Requirements document and its interpretation by the vendor fcvinteractive.com

Co-ordinating with client and vendor during the defect management process and extracts of data from cansim tables

Used Jira for defect tracking

Regression Testing of workbc.ca

Mobile testing of website on Browserstack emulators

Client : Provincial health services authority, BC, Canada www.PHSA.CA

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Duration: 2016 August - September

Provincial Health Services Authority of Canada has Work brain and Peoplesoft software’s to manage their HR Department with 18,000 employees and a budget of 2.78 billion Canadian dollars.

Developed Test Plans for Leave Management Project segments

Understanding Union agreements and their implementation on leave management Project.

Developed High level and detailed Test Cases for segments

Responsible for Testing the Interface between Peoplesoft and Work brain

Reviewed System Requirements documents for Leave Management Project

Attended Defect review meeting to discuss Priority and Severity of defects outstanding and engaging stakeholders on the go live discussion

Daily Progress Reports to Test team manager with RAG status

Created detailed Documentation for the Team using Snagit, Powerpoints to highlight the end to end process between Peoplesoft and WorkBrain and the QA approach to get 100% coverage based on Requirements documents

Defect review meeting to discuss Priority and Severity of defects outstanding

Client : London Underground (LU), United Kingdom www.tfl.gov.uk

Title: Senior Test Analyst

Role: QA Team lead

Duration: 2013 February -2016 March

Client : London Underground (LU), United Kingdom www.tfl.gov.uk

Title: Senior Test Analyst

Role: QA Team lead

Duration: 2010 June – 2011 June

2011 November – 2012 November

London Underground is part of TFL and is responsible every year for transporting 1,065 million passengers over 69 million train kilometres equivalent to 90 trips to the moon and back.

Involved in EIRF upgrade project using MetaStorm BPM for incident reporting EIRF is the Electronic Incident Recording Forms based on Metastorm BPM. This is interfaced with SAP employee system & Intranet Heartbeat System. EIRF Software customizing is done with server side VB Script.

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

Team size is 3

Developed Test Plans for Change Requests (CR) given by Business

Developed all Test cases & Test steps in Rational Manual Tester

Responsible for System Testing of EIRF after deployment

Responsible for Integration Testing of EIRF (including SAP interface)

Daily Progress Reports to Test team manager with RAG status

Defect review meeting to discuss Priority and Severity of defects outstanding and engaging stakeholders on the go live discussion.

Involvement with Subject matter experts ( Business Analysts) during UAT

Detailed defect documentation with snapshots and screen capture videos in Rational Clear Quest with evaluated decision on severity and priority.

Involved in co ordinating with automation team to run automated regression suites using Rational Functional Tester

Involved in Trackernet real time tracking system Project in regression testing.

Remedy tool for external ticket tracking

Mortimer Spinks Ltd

Client : Net a Porter, United Kingdom

http://www.net-a-porter.com/

Title: Senior Test Analyst

Role: QA Team lead

Duration: 2011 September – 2011 November

The Net-A-Porter Group Limited is the world's premier online luxury fashion retailer. Since launching in June 2000, NET-A-PORTER has successfully established itself as a luxury brand, with impeccable packaging and unrivalled customer care.

Agile Process : Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective

Involved in Order management system testing

Agile methodology ( scrum meetings, sprint, retrospectives, review, product backlog)

Team size is two

Skill Synopsis

Test Plans, Defect review, QA Process Management, Test Team Management, Functional & Non Functional Testing, Documentation, UAT

JIRA, MongoDB,Robot Framework, Selenium, Remedy, Mercury Test Director 8, 9, Mercury Quality Center 8.2, HP Quick test pro, Elementool bug tracking system, IBM Rational Functional Tester

Winrunner 8.2 ( GUI map, TSL)

SQL server, Analysis manager, Apache tomcat server, Putty

Technical authoring, Training

Evaluation experience of QA wizard, Load runner, Bugzilla bug tracker, Mantis ticket tracker

Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, BEA Weblogic, OOP concepts, Apache tomcat, HTML

JavaScript, XML, Oracle, UNIX

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Production with First Class. (1993- 1997) ANM University, India.

Interests: Mountain Trekking, Fusion Cooking, Travelling, History, Archaeology



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